Ideas

No.

I do not really see what you are selling here. People can already claim any date that they want.

What gives a person the right to own a day? A website?

If you could get a corporate sponsor (a clock company? Timex?) to sponsor this, it might help. As to why would someone buy a date, why would they buy "name-a-star", which works...?

Huh?

Who can sell the date? Time is a man made concept and it is not the same throughout the world. How would one sell such a thing?

If every date has its own page like an article on wikipedia. Then some dates/pages will be visited more often then others. This could be interesting for people who want to put advertising on particular popular dates/pages. Pages full of only advertising wouldn't make the site very attractive for people though, so a limit on that would probably be desired. For something like that to work the site would probably have to attract a considerable audience.

I own July 4th- I SAID SO so don't try and buy it.

The local space centre near me sold the right to name stars for $25 a piece in order to raise money. People bought them. They put the names of the stars and the names of the people who named them up somewhere. They gave a certificate to the person who named the star.

Why can't Timex sell dates to promote Timex and raise money for charity? I would partner with a company in the 'time' industry and put it to them to sponsor it as a fundraiser for a specific charity, say global warming (time is running out, buy your date in history now, before it is too late). There are a lot of dates in history to sell. They could even be auctioned off to the highest bidder.

Here about the guy in Montreal who sold his snowbank for $3500 on eBay. The people who bought it then went to his house and sold bags of snow to people passing by for $25 a bag. They raised a total of $10,000 for charity. If you can sell snow to a Quebecer, you can sell anything.

I sell you any country in the world for 100 cambros.
You just have to claim the countries yourself.
Planets comew cheap for 1000 cambros and the sum will bost you 1000 cambros.

Quote: " There is a sucker born every minute" (W.C. Fields).

There is a big market out there, good luck.

I once tried to buy a date........then this guy with a badge altered my entire Friday night paridigm.

ok - sell a date... but you can't have July 4th, it's mine!

This is a daft idea - nobody in their right mind would pay any useful sum of money to be able to lay claim to a date, according to a single website.

However... this is the internet. Consequently, the odds for it working must be at least evens.

*stalks off, muttering about the state of things these days*

Check out weblo.com; this idea has merit.

ok seriously, the more i do this
the slacker people seem. does anyone know how to look on the internet?
THIS IS DONE- period:
http://www.taketime.com/
they weren't lazy - they got it down to the friggin minute so there is infinite resource slacker!

Weblo- we blow?

I must say the idea is silly, but having said that it doesn't mean it can succeed as a business. There are weird sites out there and people do seem to bite the bait.

I just don’t think it is a sustainable business that can add value.

Maybe you can tie it into those "This day in history..." blurbs that come up occasionally on TV/radio and other media.

MillionDollarHomepage managed to find a way to sell pixels so maybe there's a way to sell time too. This might be more of a novelty rather than a sustainable business though.

Hi there. I haven't been here for a couple of weeks, so I'm just catching up on feedback.

@tlyden - yep, it's covered

I appreciate everyone taking the time to comment. Good feedback for the future.

Regards,

Mark